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Ohio is a state located in the Midwestern United States. Cities in Ohio are municipalities whose population is no less than 5,000; smaller municipalities are called villages. Nonresident college students and incarcerated inmates do not count towards the city requirement of 5,000 residents. [1]
Under the 1912 Constitution of Ohio, there are two kinds of incorporated municipalities: cities and villages. [1] The 2008-2009 Roster [21] [22] provided by the Ohio Secretary of State enumerates 251 cities and 681 villages in the state.
Counties of Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [2]
While some have been totally absorbed into cities or villages, becoming paper townships, the list does not give historic names for any that were renamed. The 2018-2019 Ohio Municipal, Township and School Board Roster (maintained by the Ohio Secretary of State ) lists 1,308 townships, with a 2010 population totaling 5,623,956. [ 1 ]
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The Ohio General Assembly had 30 days to draw a new map, but declined to do so, passing the buck to the same 7-member political Ohio Redistricting Commission in charge of Ohio's contentious legislative redistricting. [11] On March 2, 2022, the Ohio Redistricting Commission adopted a second Congressional map along party lines.
Murray City, the smallest municipality in Hocking County, is located in Ward Township, as are the unincorporated communities of Carbon Hill and Sand Run. Name and history [ edit ]
In May 2019, a panel of three federal judges ruled that Ohio's congressional district map was unconstitutional and based on gerrymandering. [6] [7] A new map was expected ahead of the 2020 election. [8] However, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Rucho v.